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The South Florida Theatre League is excited to announce the return of Summer Theatre Fest. For the sixth season in a row, the League has sponsored readings of new plays by local playwrights at our member theatres from Jupiter to Key West.

It’s a great way for audience members to try a new to them location. All readings are free and open to the public.

The South Florida Theatre League launches Summer Theatre Fest with our annual membership meeting and this year will close the festival with the Remy Awards. Every Monday in-between is a reading of a new play (or multiple short plays).

We are still in the process of finalizing details, but here is the current schedule for the run of Summer Theatre Fest. As we move forward, more plays and details will be finalized.

Summer Theatre Fest Reading Schedule:

Please note that some days will have multiple readings. Reading start times also vary by location.

June 4: Annual South Florida Theatre Meeting and Networking Event at Miami New Drama at 7:30 PM

June 11:Pale Blue Dot by Luis Roberto Herrera at Main Street Players at 7:30 PM

June 18:Cassie by Jessica Farr at City Theatre at the Adrienne Arsht Center, 7:00 PM

June 25:Stages of the Sun: Readings of New Plays by South Florida Theatre League Playwrights at MicroTheater Miami, various times

This reading will be done in the traditional MicroTheater set up, so multiple readings of short plays will be running concurrently within storage containers. Audience members can see as many or as few plays as they would like.

July 2:Student Stages of the Sun: Plays by Student Playwrights at Fantasy Theatre Factory at the Sandrell Rivers Theatre

July 9:When a Baby Cries by Bonita Alane Cornick at TheatreSouth at the Aventura Cultural Arts Center

The South Florida Theatre League is excited to present a workshop on Staged Intimacy with Laura Rikard.

Theatrical Intimacy Education imparts directors, performers, production designers/crew/management and teaching artists/educators with the knowledge and tools for approaching sensitive material (for stage, film, and television) safely and ethically. In this workshop, participants will learn best practices for discussing and staging intimate content in class, rehearsal, and coaching without sacrificing creative vision and maintaining the joy of the creative process. All participants will be provided with the clear, specific vocabulary necessary to discuss sensitive or sexual content
and will learn how to resolve potential moments of conflict in a positive, productive, collaborative manner. Participants will engage in active discussions and exercises on the spectrum of intimacy in a theatrical context, both on and off stage, covering casting through production.
Participants should be aware that there are exercises that will ask participants to engage in physical touch with a partner. These exercises are voluntary and participants may choose to work on their own or observe.
No photography, audio recording, or video recording. Notes must be taken by hand and not on an electronic device.

at the University of Miami
Hecht Residential Hall
Second Floor
1231 Dickinson Drive
Coral Gables, 33146

Parking is available around the building. Any space except for those marked reserved.

Laura Rikard is (SAG-AFTRA/AEA) is a director, actor, stage movement specialist, intimacy choreographer, Assistant Professor of Acting, Directing and Movement at the University of Miami and a founding member of Theatre Intimacy Education. Directing credits include: The Seagull, Dead Man’s Cellphone, Spring Awakening, 13, the Musical, Romeo and Juliet, and others. Acting Credits include: A Streetcar Named Desire, By the Bog of Cats, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Macbeth, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Rhinoceros, and others. Stage Intimacy Choreography includes: Butterfly Kiss, Spring Awakening, Memory of Water, Refuge, Tall Grass Gothic, Lady Aoi, Agatha Christie’s The Patient, and The Red Paint. She has worked in film and television, NYC, regionally, on national tours, internationally and devised solo performance productions. She has been coaching and teaching for 18 years. Former students have won the National Shakespeare Competition at the Lincoln Center, been accepted to top training programs and are currently working on and off Broadway, in professional theatres in Chicago, Los Angeles, London, at top regional theatres and her students can also been seen in numerous films and television series. Learn more about Laura at www.laurarikard.com. She taught workshops and presented on Staging Intimacy at the ATHE Conference, the ATHE Directing Pre-Conference, Rose Bruford Conservatory, Brown University, Bucknell University, Temple University, Elon University, Emory/Henry University, Dell’ Arte, and University of Utah.

We hope that you and your loved ones made it through hurricane Irma safely. If you are still without power, we hope that you get it back quickly.

We’re happy to report that the member theatres who have checked in are all doing well, including one of our member theatres in Key West, the Waterfront Playhouse. Most have sustained no damage, some have some minor damage, and as of Thursday September 15, quite a few still don’t have power.

Because of this, we are compiling information of show schedule changes due to the disruption from Hurricane Irma.

The list is in alphabetical order by theatre company, as our normal OnStage Now blasts are. We plan to update this part of our website as we learn more and Florida Theater OnStage, a local theatre journalism website, is also tracking updates.

We hope that you are doing well in the aftermath and if you haven’t yet received power back that it will come back quickly.

Sincerely,

Andie Arthur
Executive Director
South Florida Theatre League

CHANGES IN SCHEDULE DUE TO HURRICANE IRMA
As of Monday 9/18 at 4:00 PM

The opening of Area Stage’s An Octoroon has been postponed to September 24 at 5:00 PM with previews on September 23 and 24 at 8:00 PM.
An Octoroon: A Slave-Era Dramedy Where Nothing is Black or White
The Area Stage Company announces its final production of the 2016-17 season, the Florida premiere of “An Octoroon” by Obie Award-winning playwright Branden JacobsJenkins. This work takes the plot of Dion Boucicault’s 1859 antebellum melodrama, “The Octoroon”, and smashes it with a 21st-century sensibility.
1560 s dixie highway coral gables ﬂ 33146 l 305 666 2078 l areastagecompany.com
Directed by John Rodaz (Carbonell Award-winner) and designed by Giancarlo Rodaz (Carbonell Award-nominee) this production will feature choreography and original music to create a theatrical event that is equally hilarious and moving, subversive and provocative.
Area Stage Company 1560 S Dixie Hwy Coral Gables, FL 33146
TICKETS Adults: $45, Senior Citizens (65+): $40, Students (up to 25 years old with ID): $20 for SFTL Members Please call (305) 666-2078 or visit us at areastagecompany.com

Brazilian Voices at Broward Center Rescheduled
The majority of the Broward Center performances are back on schedule. The performance of Brazilian Voices scheduled for Friday 9/15 has been rescheduled to Friday 12/1. All previous ticket holders will be honored.

City Theatre’s Building the Wall Opening Postponed
BUILDING THE WALL
by Robert Schenkkan, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwrightDue to Hurricane Irma, the first performance will now be on Saturday, September 23 at 7:30 p.m.September 23 – October 8, 2017
Tickets: $34, $39, $44 & 54*
Carnival Studio Theater in the Ziff Ballet Opera House
City Theatre (@citytheatremia) and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County (@arshtcenter) have announced a new opening date for the South Florida premiere of BUILDING THE WALL, a National New Play Network rolling world premiere written by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan (The Kentucky Cycle, All the Way, Hacksaw Ridge). Due to Hurricane Irma, the first performance of BUILDING THE WALL has been rescheduled from its original date of Thursday, September 21 to Saturday, September 23 at 7:30 p.m. Guests who had tickets for performances taking place before September 23 should contact the Arsht Center Box Office at (305) 949-6722 to exchange their tickets for a new date. The updated performance schedule can be viewed at www.arshtcenter.org.

Florida International University Theatre changes the dates of upcoming shows.FIU Theatre is announcing an updated performance schedule for our fall shows after Hurricane Irma disrupted the rehearsal and production schedules.Ubu Rex, our first show of the season, will run October 6 – 15. Tickets are available at http://go.fiu.edu/ubu.
Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None now runs November 17 – 19 and November 29 – December 3 with a dark week in between for Thanksgiving.
Patrons that already purchased tickets for the shows will be contacted in the next couple of days to make an exchange.

Proyecto Teatral Las Mercedes (in Spanish) Directed by Alejandro Milián,with Musical Direction by Damaris Torres at Main Street Players has been rescheduled to Saturday, October 28th @ 8pm. Tickets are $20 at the door only.
Mainstreet Players & Proyecto Teatral Las Mercedes presenta;
Tres Actos En Español:
La Canción de Cecilia/Cecilia’s Song- performed by Ariana Begue-
( A Cuban mother who fights for her own destiny)
Mujeres de Crystal/Crystal Woman -performed by Alejandro Miliàn
( A women dies of poetry)
Peores, Las Demas/Worse, Are The Others- performed by Araina Beautiful ,Odel Iglesias & Grettel Perez
(A different musical- a lesbian mother fights for her son and her lover, the
decision is cruel and uncertain)
Performed in Spanish.
show length: 1:30
tickets at door only: $20
At: Main Street Playhouse
6766 Main Street
Miami Lakes FL 33014
305 558 3737

Palm Beach Dramaworks closed and An Evening With Charles Busch RescheduledDue to lack their phones and internet still being down, Palm Beach Dramaworks’ box office remains closed. The performance of An Evening With Charles Busch slated for Saturday the 16th has been rescheduled to Saturday, January 13, 2018.

Storycrafter Studio Changes Dates of One Show and Announces Another
Orchids and Mud Fish will not go on in October of 2017. It will open April 19, 2018.
In replacement of Orchids and Mud Fish, Storycrafter Studio will be present Mono Howard’s original play in Nov. 2017 details TBA.

Straight White Men at Thinking Cap Theatre PostponedDue to power outages and unanticipated delays as a result of Hurricane Irma, Thinking Cap Theatre will have to postpone their production of Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men. The new dates are December 14, 2017 to January 7, 2018. If you have immediate questions, please call the box office at 954-610-7263.

May 15, 2017MIAMI, FL: The Theatre League’s Summer Theatre Fest has become an integral part of South Florida’s cultural landscape, and in its fifth year South Florida audiences will once again have the opportunity to see theatre for free, and check out new plays in development by South Florida playwrights. The program’s continued and growing success over of past four years has indicated to the League that theatre patrons are ready and willing to try new theatrical experiences, and even cross county lines to do it.

Every Monday from June 1 to August 31, a South Florida Theatre League member theatre will host a reading of a new play by a local playwright.

Playwrights range from established local favorites, including Carbonell Award-winners and nominees, to emerging talents, with plays vastly ranging in subject matter and style.

“Over the past four years, Summer Theatre Fest has grown significantly. We’ve helped our member theatres incubate new plays that go on to have a life long after the reading is over. Just last week, I received a published copy of a collection of plays by Bob Bowersox – two of the plays in the collection had their start in the first two years of Summer Theatre Fest,” says Andie Arthur, executive director of the South Florida Theatre League.

“And our audiences have grown,” says Board Member and Marketing Chair Carol Kassie. “We’ve seen full theatres – which is always exciting – and a good number of patrons who attend multiple readings. We’ve also found that patrons who attend a reading a particular theatre often return to that theatre to attend a paid performance. So we consider the program a great success on both sides of the footlights!”

In addition to the reading series, this year, Summer Theatre Fest will launch on June 5 with a full day of theatre artist focused activities. Michael Leeds and Caryl Fantel, award winning director and musical director, will be leading a day long workshop on how to audition – which includes advice on choosing pieces that are right for you, how to prepare your audition material, and finding the right key for your song. The musical theatre workshop will run from 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM and the straight acting workshop will run from 2:30 PM to 6:30 PM. Actors can participate in either individual workshop for $20 or attend both for $30. Participants must be members of the South Florida Theatre League and please contact Andie Arthur, executive director, at andie@southfloridatheatre.com to sign up.

The day of workshops will end with an evening networking mixer for theatre professionals. This is free and open to the public and a great way for theatre artists to get to know each other in a casual setting.

The traditional reading series begins on Monday June 12 with readings every Monday until August 28, when Summer Theatre Fest will close with readings of plays by South Florida Theatre League Playwrights at the Miramar Cultural Center.

For more information on upcoming readings, please visit www.southfloridatheatre.com. Please note that additional information will be added for readings as it is received.

South Florida Theatre League Summer Fest – Reading Schedule:

June 5 – Summer Theatre Fest Launch Day at ArtServe – with two audition workshops led by Michael Leeds and Caryl Fantel (Musical Theatre from 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM and acting from 2:30 PM to 6:30 PM) and a Networking Mixer at 7:00 PM

The South Florida Theatre League
to present a workshop onCopyright Law and Its Application to the Theatre and Performing Arts Community
January 28, 2017

In keeping with its mandate to provide education and support to its membership and community, the South Florida Theatre League will present Copyright Law and Its Application to the Theatre and Performing Arts Community – a workshop dedicated to copyright law considerations for theatre professionals, on Saturday, January 28, 2016 at ArtServe from 1-5 pm. The course will be conducted by two local attorneys, Susan Dierenfeldt-Troy and David Rogero, who between the two of them, have over fifty years of combined experience in the area of intellectual property law. This is the same workshop that was previous scheduled for October 8, 2016, but had to be postponed due to Hurricane Matthew.

The course will focus on matters of concern to various professionals within the theatrical community – from producers to playwrights – and will be comprised of a lecture and a workshop. For the workshop, attendees will be asked to address a hypothetical copyright law-related problem confronting a fictional theater. Workshop topics to be covered include protecting one’s copyright, avoiding infringement of another’s copyrighted work, and copyright licensing agreements.

The target audience for the Copyright Law and Its Application to the Theatre and Performing Arts Community workshop includes playwrights, producers, directors, performing artists, and anyone who wishes to learn more about copyright law in general from both a theoretical and practical standpoint. It will be open to both South Florida Theatre League members and non-members.

Cost for the Copyright Law and Its Application to the Theatre and Performing Arts Community workshop will be $10 for League members, and $25 for non-members. Tickets are available on line; tickets will also be available for purchase at the door, the day of the event.

The Florida Bar will award 4 CLE credits for taking this course.

South Florida Theatre League is an alliance of theatrical organizations and professionals dedicated to nurturing, promoting, and advocating for the growth and prestige of the South Florida theatre industry. The League unites member theaters at all levels from the professional organizations that hire Equity actors to community theatres that give amateurs a chance to test their skills. Everyone who works in the theatre industry in South Florida is eligible to be a member of the League.

Copyright Law and Its Application to the Theatre and Performing Arts Community

Presented by the South Florida Theatre League
Led by Susan Dierenfeldt-Troy and David Rogero

Susan D. Troy is a partner with the Miami-based law firm of Troy & Schwartz, LLC. She specializes in intellectual property law matters pertaining to copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, and entertainment law. She is a registered patent attorney with the U.S. patent bar. In the area of copyrights, Ms. Troy has assisted clients with the formal registration of copyrights in music, literature, the visual arts, software, and television programs. She has also conducted copyright and trademark clearance searches and written opinion letters on behalf of television show producers. She has prosecuted copyright infringement suits in numerous courts, largely as the counsel for defendants in such lawsuits and written and negotiated numerous copyright licensing agreements on behalf of copyright owners.

Ms. Troy is also an instructor at Miami-Dade College’s Continuing Education Department where she teaches a course on risk management for new and growing businesses. Susan is a magna cum laude graduate of St. Thomas School of Law where she was a member of the law review.

David M. Rogero is an AV Preeminent-rated attorney specializing in copyright and trademark matters and business litigation. He has 40 years’ experience, and is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in Florida. Mr. Rogero has assisted clients with the registration of their copyright claims in music, literature, photographs, and other visual arts and television programs. He has prosecuted numerous copyright infringement suits in federal courts throughout Florida.

Mr. Rogero has served as chairman and as an active committee member in the Florida Bar’s Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Section. He has also served several terms on the board of directors of the Dade County Bar Association, as well as the chairman of the Legal Aid and Public Service Committee, and as chairman of the board of the Greater Miami and the Keys Chapter of the American Red Cross. David graduated from the University of Florida School of Law with honors.

As South Florida prepares for Hurricane Matthew, the South Florida Theatre League will update this post with postponements and cancellations of shows of our member organizations as we find out about them. We are not the only local theatre related organization doing this, so please also check out Florida Theater OnStage in addition to our site in order to have the most complete picture of what is happening.

Arts Garage is cancelling Thursday and Friday night’s performances. The opening of The Mystery of Love and Sex has been postponed until next Thursday night. If there is power this weekend, there will be preview performances on Saturday and Sunday.

Main Street Players is changing their schedule for their production of Clybourne Park this weekend to only two shows on Sunday October 9th, one at 2PM and one at 7PM.

UPDATE: Mad Cat Theatre Company’s Thursday and Friday night performances of Why Not? With Richard Nixon has been cancelled. All tickets will be reimbursed. Two shows have been added to the schedule, on Monday Oct 10th and Tuesday Oct 11, both at 8PM.

GableStage has cancelled Thursday Night’s performance of Hand to God. Friday night’s performance will go on as scheduled.

UPDATE: Theatre Lab is postponing two events schedule for this weekend with playwright Deborah Zoe Laufer. The Playwright’s Master Class will be moved from Sunday, Oct 6th to Sunday, Oct 16th at 11am. The Playwright’s Forum originally scheduled for Thursday evening at 7:30 has been moved to Thursday Oct 13 at 7:30 PM.

September 8, 2016MIAMI, FL: In keeping with its mandate to provide education and support to its membership and community, the South Florida Theatre League will present Copyright Law and Its Application to the Theatre and Performing Arts Community – a workshop dedicated to copyright law considerations for theatre professionals, on Saturday, October 8, 2016 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts from 1-5 pm. The course will be conducted by two local attorneys, Susan Dierenfeldt-Troy and David Rogero, who between the two of them, have over fifty years of combined experience in the area of intellectual property law.

The course will focus on matters of concern to various professionals within the theatrical community – from producers to playwrights – and will be comprised of a lecture and a workshop. For the workshop, attendees will be asked to address a hypothetical copyright law-related problem confronting a fictional theater. Workshop topics to be covered include protecting one’s copyright, avoiding infringement of another’s copyrighted work, and copyright licensing agreements.

The target audience for the Copyright Law and Its Application to the Theatre and Performing Arts Community workshop includes playwrights, producers, directors, performing artists, and anyone who wishes to learn more about copyright law in general from both a theoretical and practical standpoint. It will be open to both South Florida Theatre League members and non-members.

Cost for the Copyright Law and Its Application to the Theatre and Performing Arts Communityworkshop will be $10 for League members, and $25 for non-members. Tickets are available on line; tickets will also be available for purchase at the door, the day of the event.

The Florida Bar will award 4 CLE credits for taking this course.

South Florida Theatre League is an alliance of theatrical organizations and professionals dedicated to nurturing, promoting, and advocating for the growth and prestige of the South Florida theatre industry. The League unites member theaters at all levels from the professional organizations that hire Equity actors to community theatres that give amateurs a chance to test their skills. Everyone who works in the theatre industry in South Florida is eligible to be a member of the League.

Susan D. Troy is a partner with the Miami-based law firm of Troy & Schwartz, LLC. She specializes in intellectual property law matters pertaining to copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, and entertainment law. She is a registered patent attorney with the U.S. patent bar. In the area of copyrights, Ms. Troy has assisted clients with the formal registration of copyrights in music, literature, the visual arts, software, and television programs. She has also conducted copyright and trademark clearance searches and written opinion letters on behalf of television show producers. She has prosecuted copyright infringement suits in numerous courts, largely as the counsel for defendants in such lawsuits and written and negotiated numerous copyright licensing agreements on behalf of copyright owners.

Ms. Troy is also an instructor at Miami-Dade College’s Continuing Education Department where she teaches a course on risk management for new and growing businesses. Susan is a magna cum laude graduate of St. Thomas School of Law where she was a member of the law review.

David M. Rogero is an AV Preeminent-rated attorney specializing in copyright and trademark matters and business litigation. He has 40 years’ experience, and is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in Florida. Mr. Rogero has assisted clients with the registration of their copyright claims in music, literature, photographs, and other visual arts and television programs. He has prosecuted numerous copyright infringement suits in federal courts throughout Florida.

Mr. Rogero has served as chairman and as an active committee member in the Florida Bar’s Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Section. He has also served several terms on the board of directors of the Dade County Bar Association, as well as the chairman of the Legal Aid and Public Service Committee, and as

chairman of the board of the Greater Miami and the Keys Chapter of the American Red Cross. David graduated from the University of Florida School of Law with honors.

May 24, 2016MIAMI, FL: The Theatre League’s Summer Theatre Fest has become an integral part of South Florida’s cultural landscape, and in its fourth year South Florida audiences will once again have the opportunity to see theatre for free, and check out new plays in development by South Florida playwrights. The program’s continued and growing success over of past three years has indicated to the League that theatre patrons are ready and willing to try new theatrical experiences, and even cross county lines to do it.

Every Monday from June 1 to August 31, with the exception of July 4, a South Florida Theatre League member theatre will host a reading of a new play by a local playwright.

Playwrights range from established local favorites, including Carbonell Award-winners and nominees, to emerging talents, with plays vastly ranging in subject matter and style.

“It’s a great to see so many new playwrights participating in Summer Theatre Fest,” says Carol Kassie, the League’s president. “We’re becoming an incubator for new plays. Glenn Hutchinson’s The Pot had a reading in our inaugural Summer Theatre Fest and has gone on to multiple productions.
“And our audiences have grown as well,” she continues. We’ve seen full theatres – which is always exciting – and a good number of patrons who attend multiple readings. We’ve also found that patrons who attend a reading a particular theatre often return to that theatre to attend a paid performance. So we consider the program a great success on both sides of the footlights!”

South Florida Theatre League Summer Fest – Reading Schedule:

June 8

Entertain/Local – A Celebration of 21 Years of Working With Local Playwrights
City Theatre at the Arsht Center
7:00 PM

Summer Theatre Fest publically launches with Enterain/Local presented by City Theatre at the Adrienne Arsht Center. Come join us as we celebrate 21 years of City Theatre developing and launching local playwrights, with readings of celebrated and new short plays. Come early or stay late for Happy Hour at Books & Books with ½ price drinks and snacks.

June 13

Thirteen is Murder by Local Playwrights
Mystery on the Menu at Andrews Living Arts Studio
7:00 PM

ACT ONE— The Thirteenth VoteA one woman interactive murder mystery featuring Barbara Fox and several members of the audience who will read the parts of thedifferent characters competing for the nomination for president.
ACT TWO
Five different ten minute mysteries by local playwrights, all of them having something to do with the number thirteen.Faust: A Gay Romantic ComedyBy Vyvian Figueredo
Lost Girls Theatre at the Deering Estate
8:00 PM

Faust is a young gay man still living with his mother and doesn’t have a car. All he really wants is for Ben, his crush, to pay attention to him. So he makes a deal with the Devil to get Ben to like him. However, Ben is far more interested in Mephistopheles than Faust — causing an unconventional romantic comedy to ensue.

“If I Were You” And Other Elvis Presley SongsbyLeah Roth BarsantiThinking Cap Theatre
Time TBA

It is the Spring of 1978, and Brett and his sister Sadie still don’t feel at home in Bakersfield California. Homesick for Tupelo, Mississippi, the town his family left two years ago, Brett has developed a secret life that’s causing him to act more and more like a sullen teenager and less and less Sadie’s old childhood playmate; but Sadie is not the type to let secrets stay hidden for long. She follows him to a clandestine clubhouse where she learns the truth: Brett has joined a club of Elvis impersonators, and is becoming more and more like “The King” by the minute. But there’s a danger in Brett’s new found obsession, one that Sadie doesn’t trust. Can she save him before he loses himself to Elvis entirely.

When Jason starts a conversation with Anna Maria about the book she’s reading, the classical play Medea, there’s an immediate connection between them. One thing leads to another and they end up at her place, discovering each other in-between bouts of heavy kissing and petting. When she suddenly remembers meeting him two years earlier at a party — and the circumstances of that meeting — the romance comes to an abrupt end. With elements of the Medea myth woven into the story, the play asks if we have the right to decide who we are and want to become, or whether we are only the sum of our experiences and forever tied to them.

July 4

No Reading Due to the Holiday

July 11

The Return By Bob Bowersox
Theatre XP at the Red Barn Theatre
7:00 PM

Venerable World News Network anchorman David Steele announces at the end of his Friday night broadcast that while they have known him as David Steele for the past 35 years, he is actually the returned Jesus Christ of Nazareth, here to fix up the problems Mankind has created. Needless to say, all hell breaks loose. So to speak.

July 18

The Ballad of Janis Mathews and the Dodo Scouts by Giancarlo Rodaz and Rachel Dean
Area Stage
Time 7:30 PM

July 25

Stet by Kim Davies
Arts Garage
Time 7:00 PM

Journalistic ethics are called into question as Rolling Stone magazine jumps the gun on a story involving a fraternity’s savage attack on a college student. Cast includes Elizabeth Price, Clay Cartland, Connie Fernandez, Jacqueline Laggy and Peter Librach.

August 1

At the End of the Exodus by Hannah Benetiz
Main Street Players
8:00 PM

A multi-generational and multi-cultural family forced together on three major holidays, unified by a tragedy. A dark comedy about the American experience.

August 8

The Sword Bride by Cynthia Joyce Clay
Storycrafter Studio
8:00 PM

August 15

Merde De Canard by Ken Kurtz
GableStage
7:30 PM

The focus is on Jacques de Vaucanson, whose wondrous mechanical creations — especially the famous shitting duck — delighted Parisians of the mid-eighteenth century, and foreshadowed the workings of modern computers. There are mistaken identities, lovelorn chases, sex desired but never obtained, and a randy robot running amuck. A farce-comedy, based on the unflappable yet unpredictable logic of automatons.

More Shorts Gone Wild! by Various Playwrights
Island City Stage and City Theatre
7:00 PM

An evening of readings featuring New LGBTQ shorts

August 22

Pyscho and Dummy by Cliff BurgessMad Cat Theatre
7:30 PM

Two duffle bags crammed with cash. Two guns gripped in the palms of sweaty hands. Two masks hiding the faces of two amateur criminals who attempt to rob a bank, trap themselves in the bank vault and slowly tear each other apart. Two brothers forced to deal with past resentment, pain and unfinished family business. Who are they? They are Psycho and Dummy.

Three Man by Todd Bruno
Evening Star Productions
8:00 PM

Tom and Dill are best friends and roommates, trying to navigate the complicated world of modern relationships. Tom wants a stable woman with a good head on her shoulders, while Dill craves excitement and distraction. Both men get more than they bargained for when Dill invites Vicki and Dee to play a drinking game one night. Tom is immediately entranced by Vicki, the girl-next-door who harbors a secret. Dill gravitates to the boisterous Dee, whose overpowering personality forces him to face the exact issue he wants desperately to avoid. Relationships are torn to shreds, as Tom is drawn deeper and deeper into Vicki’s abyss, and Dee drives Dill into self-imposed exile, leaving everyone wishing they could shove the genie right back into the bottle.

August 29

Stages of the Sun: Readings of Plays by South Florida Theatre League Playwrights
Miramar Cultural Center
Time 7:00 PM

Summer Theatre Fest ends with a celebration of our membership. We will be reading eight short plays by South Florida Theatre League playwrights.

March 29, 2016MIAMI, FL: On April 1st Front Row, the South Florida Theatre League’s new audience development program will make its debut. Front Row has been designed to appeal to people who enjoy attending all types of theatre in all types of settings – from large professional playhouses to intimate performance spaces; from Equity companies to Community Theatre. The program includes South Florida Theatre League member theatres and theatre companies in Miami Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, and Monroe Counties.

During its 22 years of representing theaters and working professionals in the industry – from actors and directors to stagehands and box office personnel – the South Florida Theatre League has never had a “friends of” organization to support its efforts.

Front Row promises to ‘bring inside information about what goes into creating a theatrical production, and will offer theatre patrons the chance to get a little bit closer to the mysteries of how theatre works!’ The program’s benefits will include opportunities not often offered to ‘regular’ theatre goers, including back stage tours, talk backs, and meetings with actors, directors, and playwrights. Other benefits will be added as the Front Row evolves, however reduced price tickets will not be part of the program.

“I think Front Row is an excellent way to engage and grow our audiences,” says the League’s president, Carol Kassie. “It will offer patrons a unique opportunity to learn more about the many aspects of the production side of our industry. I believe it will enhance their theatrical experience, and provide them with a deeper appreciation and understanding of what goes into the making of a show.”

Revenue generated by Front Row will help support the South Florida Theatre League in its mission to nurture, promote, and advocate for the South Florida theatre industry

The South Florida Theatre League unites member theaters at all levels from the professional organizations that hire Equity actors to community theatres that give amateurs a chance to test their skills. Everyone who works in the theater industry in South Florida is eligible to be a member of the League.

Front Row memberships will be available to the general public for $75 per person or $125 per couple on the League website (www.southfloridatheatre.com) beginning April 1st, 2016.

For more information about Front Row and/or the South Florida Theatre League, contact Andie Arthur at andie@southfloridatheatre.com /954-557-0778 or visit the League’s website at www.southfloridatheatre.com.

December 1, 2015MIAMI, FL: The South Florida Theatre League has added a number of new faces to its 2015-2016 Board of Directors, and by doing so has increased its size as well its make-up – both important factors in making sure the organization reflects the multi-faceted and wide-spread community it serves.

The League, which is an “alliance of theatrical organizations and professionals dedicated to nurturing, promoting, and advocating for the growth and prestige of the South Florida theatre industry,” serves as the umbrella organization for over 80 theatres between Key West and Jupiter.

Carol Kassie, who joined the Board in 2012 and has served as chairman of the League’s Marketing Committee as well as on the executive committee as Recording Secretary, has taken on the presidency of the organization. Kent Wilson (joined 2013) will serve as Vice President, Michael Yawney (joined 2010) will act as Treasurer, and immediate past president Christopher Jahn (joined 2012) will continue to serve on the Board’s executive committee as Recording Secretary.

The South Florida Theatre League provides support to its member theatres in a number of different ways, including advocacy, education promotion, and support.

The League’s Summer Theatre Fest has become an integral part of South Florida’s cultural landscape, offering audiences the opportunity to see theatre for free, participate in the development of new plays by South Florida playwrights – fledgling and well known, and discover and visit theatres they might not have considered attending had the opportunity not been presented.

The League also offers workshops for its members and its member theatres given by experts in their various fields. Audition workshops – musical and dramatic, are held, preliminary to the League’s Unified Auditions, during which member actors are able to present themselves to local producers and directors. A Critics Panel for member theatres has proven to be useful for both member theatres and the journalists who write about them. The League’s weekly eblast contains information about current and upcoming productions, as well as audition notices and other theatrical job opportunities. And The South Florida Theatre League’s prestigious Remy Awards, given to individuals who often go unrecognized but whose contributions to the region’s theatrical community are absolutely necessary for its survival will be awarded at the League’s gala holiday party, which will take place on Monday December 7th at Stache in downtown Ft. Lauderdale from 7:30 to 10:00.

Carol Kassie (President) has had a deep and abiding love for the arts, particularly theatre, since she was a small child and her parents presented her with an original Broadway cast recording of “My Fair Lady”. Armed with a degree in Theatre from Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University) in Montreal, Canada, she became …a librarian. She spent 30 years in Ottawa, Canada, raising two children with her husband, Ralph, working first as a librarian and then in the family’s Army/Navy business, all the while actively participating in many of the Ottawa Community’s cultural events. She served as president of the Ottawa Section of National Council of Jewish Women, as well as National Vice President of that organization. She also was a longstanding board member of the Ottawa Jewish Community Center, and eventually became the organization’s first female president. A move to South Florida in 2001 offered her an opportunity to return to her first love, theatre, and she jumped at the chance – she currently does freelance theatrical marketing, public relations, and audience growth and development for various local and national theatres, theatre companies, and cultural organizations. She served on the board of directors of the South Florida Theatre League as chairman of the Marketing Committee and on the executive committee as Recording Secretary before taking on the position of president.

Kent Wilson (Vice President) lives in a world that includes diverse theatrical involvement and proficiency in the medical software industry. He balances these biospheres by utilizing his understanding of human behavior cultivated at Southern New Hampshire University earning a B.A. in Forensic Psychology. Kent has served as president of the Southeastern Arts, Media, and Education Project, which produced plays, original films, and the publication of Amethyst,a journal of creative writing and visual arts. He is currently on the Ambassadors Council for the National New Play Network, a judge for the Carbonell Awards, and is a member of two South Florida theatre companies. Kent has a firm belief in the talented artists and craftspeople of South Florida as a brilliant regional artistic force. He is proud to support this community as a board member of the South Florida Theatre League. Through its workshops, forums, and more, the League positions itself as a cornerstone in the recognition of our community thereby fulfilling its mission to nurture, promote, and advocate for the growth and prestige of the South Florida theatre industry.

Christopher Jahn (Immediate Past President/Recording Secretary) began his South Florida theatrical career in 1986 when he joined the resident company of The Actors’ Repertory Company. For the next few years, he appeared at several theaters across Palm Beach County, and still works as an actor, dubbing movies and telenovellas for several studios. He quickly added set design to his resume, and eventually started to pursue a more technically oriented career at the Burt Reynolds Jupiter Dinner Theatre, and soon joined the stage management team at Florida Stage back when it was still The Theatre Club of the Palm Beaches. In 1994 he joined the staff of the Jupiter Theatre as Master Carpenter, becoming Technical Director for its final two productions in 1996. He joined the Actors’ Playhouse staff in 1998 as Associate Technical Director, and served as Production Manager from 2002 to 2008. It was during this period that he started the South Florida Theatre Scene, a blog dedicated to pulling together news articles and reviews of South Florida theatre production. For his work on the blog, he was presented with a Remy Award for Service. Since 2008, he has worked at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts as a Production Supervisor, coordinating the wide range of productions coming into the Amaturo Theater and the Abdo New River Room. He is immensely proud to be serving on the board of the South Florida Theater League.

Michael Yawney (Treasurer) is a director/playwright dedicated to creating work that is purely theatrical, expressing itself in an idiom that only possible in the context of live performance.
Yawney’s play Exile Jesus Starbucks debuted at Miami Light Project in 20015. He directed Rudi Goblen’s PET at Miami Light Project in 2013. He dramaturged and directed Heather Woodbury’s 12-hour stand-up novel As the Globe Warms, which was seen at Austin’s Vortex Rep, L.A.’s Redcat. Other recent productions include Juan C. Sanchez’s Catherine’s Wheel and Kenny Finkle’s A Thousand Years at FIU’s Alternative Summer Theater Festival, Noye’s Fludde, Amahl and the Night Visitors and Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale for Orchestra Miami, as well as Cardenio and The Liar for Florida International Univesity. Yawney was a fellow in Miami-Dade County’s Playwright Development Program 2010-2012. His play 1,000 Homosexual was developed in a residency at New York Stage and Film and premiered at the Arsht Center (which had commissioned the work) in 2008. He co-curated the international Iranian Theater Festival in New York in 2011, which presented his production of Assurbanipal Babilla’s Something Something Uber Alles.
His production of Assurbanipal Babilla’s Three Angels Dancing on a Needle was named Best Theatrical Production of 2007 by Miami New Times. This production went on to be named Best Foreign Language Production at the Brooklyn Brick Theater’s Pretentious Festival. Yawney has directed plays by Heather Woodbury, Honor Kane (Honor Malloy), Madeleine Olnek, Deb Margolin, Georg Osterman and this work has been seen at New York’s Public Theater, Dixon Place, BMI Musical Theater Workshop, HERE, Downtown Art Co. Ensemble Studio Theater, Indiana University, and the Pittsburgh Performance Art Festival. Yawney’s writing has appeared in Theater Week, Propaganda,Playgirl OutTraveler and OFF as well as in the book, Michael Chekhov: Critical Issues, Reflections, Dreams. He has a BFA from the Experimental Theater Wing of New York University and an MFA in Directing from Columbia University. He currently teaches theater at Florida International University.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—Nine individuals will be honored with the South Florida Theatre League’s Remy Awards, which will be presented at the League’s annual holiday celebration on December 7, 2015 at Stache in Fort Lauderdale.

The Remy Awards are named in honor of Remberto Cabrera, the former Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs’ Senior Cultural Administrator and Chief of Cultural Development. The awards are given annually for Outstanding Service and for Pioneering in South Florida regional theatre.

“We are honored to present the Remy Awards to individuals who are such important members of our community,” says League President Carol Kassie. “These are the unsung heroes of South Florida theatre, whose contributions are absolutely essential to the success of our theatres and productions, but who often work behind the scenes and go unrecognized. This is our opportunity to say ‘Thank you’ for all that they do for the South Florida theatrical community.”

Along with the Service and Pioneer Awards, Remys will be presented for Outstanding Contributor to Community Theatre, Outstanding Contributor to Children’s Theatre, and Outstanding Behind-the-Scenes Theatre Professional, Civic Arts Leadership Award, and the Jay Harris Arts Leadership Award.

Theatres and theatre producers were asked to nominate individuals they felt were deserving of recognition, and a Theatre League committee was tasked with choosing the winners.

The Pioneer Award is bestowed upon individuals who have, over the years, taken the lead and contributed substantially to the health, growth and development of the South Florida theatre community.

Sue Ellen Beryl is Managing Director and a co-founder of Palm Beach Dramaworks, a professional theatre company created in September of 2000. As an artist, Sue Ellen made her professional debut as a dancer in New York City at nine years old, and performed on stage and screen with such great theatrical artists as Zero Mostel, Theodore Bikel, Paul Sorvino, and Peter Genarro. A graduate of Pace University, Sue Ellen began her career in theatrical management as Managing Director of the Schimmel Center for the Arts, and Box Office Manager and Publicity Director for Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. In addition, her business experience includes 10 years in the New York advertising industry and several years managing a family-owned business on the New York Commodity Exchange. Among her proudest achievements are her children, stepchildren, and grandchildren, in addition to her “baby”, Palm Beach Dramaworks. She is proud of her service to the community as a member of the Town of Palm Beach United Way Allocations Committee, past Chair of the Palm Beach County Cultural Council Cultural Executives Committee and is a “National Ambassador” for The Actors Fund.

William Hayes is a founding member of Palm Beach Dramaworks. Originally from Syracuse, William has an extensive list of directing credits, including such acclaimed PBD productions as Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (five Carbonell Award nominations, including Best Director and Best Play), American Buffalo (three Carbonell Award nominations, including Best Director and Best Play), A Delicate Balance (four Carbonell Award nominations, including Best Director and Best Play), Exit the King (three Carbonell Award nominations), The Lion in Winter (five Carbonell Award nominations, including Best Director and Best Play) and, most recently, My Old Lady starring Estelle Parsons. He is a 35-year veteran actor: PBD highlights include Cradeau in No Exit and Norman in The Dresser (Curtain Up Award and Carbonell Award nomination, Best Actor). Also a playwright, he is the recipient of the Charles M. Getchell Award, a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, and has served as a playwriting adjudicator for the Southeastern Theatre Conference and the Samuel French OOB Festival.

Locally, he adjudicates the drama portion of the annual Pathfinders Awards sponsored by the Palm Beach Post, is a member of the board of directors of the Economic Forum of Palm Beach County, and served on the City of West Palm Beach Cultural Affairs Council. He is the recent recipient of the 2014 Clyde Fyfe Award, presented by the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County, and a 2014 Silver Palm Award, presented by the South Florida Theatre League, “for his outstanding work as Producing Artistic Director” of PBD. William also serves as President of the Florida Professional Theatres Association and is a National Ambassador for The Actors Fund.

The Service Award – Ann Kelly Anthony
The Service Award is given to either individuals or organizations in recognition of their invaluable and outstanding contributions made through time, talent, service, and expertise by taking the initiative and actively participating and contributing to the growth and development of the South Florida Theatre League.

Ann Kelly Anthony is a former Chairman and board member of City Theatre as well as the former Chairman and Executive Director of Mad Cat Theatre Company. During her tenure at City Theatre, she was the Chairman during the organizations pivotal move from the Ring Theatre at the University of Miami to what is now known as the Carnival Studio Theater at the Arsht Theater. Along with business partner Paul Tei, with Paul at the helm on the artistic side of the company, Ann was responsible for the day to day and many nights management of Mad Cat, which included more duties that can be listed. Ann is also a past officer and board member of the South Florida Theatre League and served on the board for eight years. Her involvement in the South Florida Theatre community goes beyond these organizations, and she has always been available as a consultant at no charge and donor to many other arts organizations, as well as attending as many South Florida plays as possible. Ann is a current member of Funding Arts Network and will be servicing on the FAN screening committee for grants that will be awarded in 2016. All of Ann’s involvement in the arts has always been on a 100% volunteer basis. Ann is a member of the Coral Gables chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and is a founder and co-owner of Skymar Capital Corporation where is responsible for commercial real estate loan originations and acquisitions across the U.S. Ann is happily married to actor and musician, Stephen G. Anthony.

The Civic Arts Leadership Award – Jody Horne-Leshinsky
The Civic Arts Leadership Award is given to individuals in public service who have significantly supported the arts.

Jody Horne-Leshinsky is responsible for assisting the Director with the operations of the Broward Cultural Division. Community Development, as a critical liaison to other divisions, departments, municipalities, 823 not-for-profit arts and cultural organizations and 10,000 artists, under Jody’s leadership, is a catalyst for collaborations, entrepreneurial ventures and artistic development. She received her bachelor’s degree from Indiana State University. A County employee since 1981, Jody joined the Cultural Division in 1988. During her tenure she has won numerous awards from the Advertising Federation of Fort Lauderdale, the National Association of County Information Officers, the National Association of Counties and Golden Pen Awards from the International Association of Business Communicators for the Cultural Quarterly magazine, logo design for the Cultural Information Center and the Cultural Division website. She lives in Lauderhill with her husband, Joel, and two daughters, Rachel and Adina, and is pursuing photography as an art form and passion. With multiple years with Broward County, coupled with her dedication and commitment to the arts and culture of this growing community, Jody continues to hone her strengths and leadership toward an area of economic stimulus through arts and culture, in the belief that this is a cornerstone for the success of any metropolitan area.The Jay Harris Arts Leadership Award – Michael Spring

Named in memory of one of South Florida’s most dedicated arts patrons, the Jay Harris Arts Leadership Award honors those who have made a substantial contribution to the theatrical community in the ways that Jay Harris did—through leadership, on-going volunteerism, and financial support.

As Director of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, Michael Spring is responsible for supervision of a public arts agency with an annual budget of more than $30 million. In 2014, Mayor Carlos Gimenez expanded his responsibilities by appointing him to serve as a Senior Advisor for the County’s Cultural Affairs and Recreation portfolio, including the arts, parks and libraries. He represents the County and the Department on numerous cultural and civic organizations including service as Secretary of the board of directors of Americans for the Arts (the nation’s leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America), a founding board member and officer of Americans for the Arts Action Fund, member and past President of the United States Urban Arts Federation, chairman of the board of the Florida Cultural Alliance, chairman of the 5-county regional arts alliance, the South Florida Cultural Consortium, director of the Miami-Dade County Tourist Development Council and member of the board of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce. Over the almost 30 years that he has served the Department of Cultural Affairs, Michael Spring has helped build Miami-Dade County’s cultural community into a more than a $1 billion annual industry comprised of more than 1,000 non-profit cultural groups and thousands of artists. This work has encompassed: providing comprehensive support for the entire cultural community from artists to major institutions and grassroots and multicultural arts groups with a focus on neighborhood activities; establishing an ongoing cultural facilities improvements program, with more than $100 million of public funds devoted to improving existing and building new theaters county-wide; and developing initiatives to increase more participation in cultural activities for Miami-Dade’s residents and visitors. Michael Spring has a B.A. degree from the University of Miami and earned an M.A. in painting from New York University, involving studies in Venice, Italy. He continues to paint and develop his interests as a visual artist.

Outstanding Contributor to Children’s Theatre – Sean Cutler, Fort Lauderdale Children’s TheatreSean Cutler began his career as a member of Ruth Foreman’s Pied Piper Players in Miami, where he acted in children’s theatre productions beginning when he was eight years old. He first acted professionally at age 12, and received his Equity card at age 14 playing the role of Eugene in Brighton Beach Memoirs, for which he was nominated for a Carbonell Award. He is a graduate of the New World School of the Arts, where he was a Dean’s Award recipient in Theatre and holds a BFA in Film and TV production from NYU. After spending 15 years in New York and LA, working professionally off-Broadway and in regional theatre, Sean returned to South Florida where he presently serves as the Producing Director at Fort Lauderdale Children’s Theatre. As the senior resident show director and lighting designer, Sean has directed and designed over 20 main season productions including Sweeney Todd, Les Miserables, Through The Looking Glass, Starlight Express (performed entirely on roller skates), Seussical, and many more.

Michael Andron is the Founding Artistic Director of JCAT, the J’s Cultural Arts Theatre, in NMB, now in its 9th season. A true renaissance man, Michael is an ordained Mohel, a Tai Chi Grand Master and 7th Degree Black Belt in Chinese Martial Arts, and director of Kodesh Center, a non-profit foundation for personal growth, Body-Mind-Energy development and Jewish Mindfulness. Michael is co-author—with his son Ben—of The Essential Guide to Energy Healing from Penguin/Alpha Books. He appeared in the long running, off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks, in its original home on Sullivan Street. He will be reprising his role as the old actor (Henry) later this season at JCAT. Prior to returning to Miami, he was Founding Artistic Director of the Oconee Community Theatre in South Carolina, now in its 43rd year, and served as the Founding Artistic Director of the Hillel Community Theatre in North Miami Beach for 20 years. He has taught at New World School of the Arts, North Carolina School of the Arts, and at New York University’s Department of Educational Theatre. His focus, in all of these institutions, centered on Martial Arts and Yoga as a Psycho-Physical Training Method for the Performing Artist.

Along with her husband, Michael, Lillian Andron is a co-founder and a driving force at JCAT and the other community theatres that Michael founded. As part of this life-long team, she is involved on some level with every single production, from administrative duties to backstage assistance, to training actors, to on-stage roles (her favorite). Lillian trained at NYU, the American Academy for Dramatic Arts and was certified by the True Acting Institute with the world-renowned teacher, Larry Silverberg, in the Meisner Approach to Acting. It all began when Michael met Lillian at an NYU audition (Michael directing, Lillian acting); she got the part and the rest is history. When she learned that Michael had graduated from Yeshiva University, she blurted, “Then why aren’t you in Medical School?” Her favorite role, however, is as Michael’s soul mate, Ben’s mom, Mich’s mother-in-love and grandma to Sarah, Joseph, Elchanan and Jacob.

Carlos Rodriguez was born in Pereira, Colombia and raised in Bogota. He came to the United States in 1993 and started working for GableStage in 1999. His first responsibility was working as Assistant to the Technical Director and within two years he became the Technical Director. Joseph Adler, Producing Artistic Director, says, “In the 16 years Carlos has been with us, he has become virtually indispensible. I don’t know anyone who has ever been more hard-working or committed.” Carlos enjoys the variety of work involved producing a new play every two months, because, “Each play is a new set of challenges, new things to research, new opportunities to learn and grow.”

The South Florida Theatre League’s Annual Holiday Party promises to be an exciting event, as the Silver Palm Awards will also be presented that evening. The party will take place at STACHE at 109 SW 2 Avenue in Fort Lauderdale, on Monday, December 7, at 7:30 pm. Admission is $25 for non-Theatre League members; there is no charge for League members in good standing.

For further information about the South Florida Theatre League and The Remy Awards, please contact Executive Director Andie Arthur at 954-557-0778 or at andie@southfloridatheatre.com.

The Miami-Dade Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the South Florida Theatre League and the Deering Estate are excited to present From Scratch: New Plays from Miami. For the past three years, local playwrights Andie Arthur, Chris Demos-Brown, and Juan C. Sanchez have been developing work in the Playwright Development Program with Master Playwright Sheri Wilner. During the weekend of August 22 and 23, you have the chance to witness three new plays in progress.

Abigail Parker, daughter of the celebrated, late Rev. Nathaniel Parker, is returning to her hometown in Ohio after attempting suicide. Back at home, she finds herself attending services at her father’s old Unitarian Universalist Church, where she is drawn to the new minister, Rev. Miriam. However, the congregation hasn’t warmed up to Rev. Miriam in the same way Abigail has. As the congregation tears itself apart over its relationship with their minister, Abigail is forced to make a choice between an idealized past and an uncertain future. Andie Arthur’s Such Tremendous Faith is a drama about issues of power and privilege in congregational life, chosen family, depression, and Christmas Eve Services that are too Jesus-y.

When Jason starts a conversation with Anna Maria about the book she’s reading, the classical play Medea, there’s an imme-diate connection between them. One thing leads to another and they end up at her place, discovering each other in be-tween bouts of heavy kissing and petting. When she suddenly remembers meeting him two years earlier at a party — and the circumstances of that meeting — the romance comes to an abrupt end. With elements of the Medea myth woven into the story, the play asks if we have the right to decide who we are and want to become, or whether we are only the sum of our experiences and forever tied to them.

Wrongful Death
By Chris Demos-Brown
Sunday August 23 at 5:30 PM
at Area Stage Company
1560 S Dixie Hwy, Coral Gables, FL

When a plane crashes shortly after takeoff killing all aboard, struggling personal injury lawyer, Laura Mendes, scampers to sign up the case of her life. Wrongful Death takes a wry, satirical look at the crude ways our legal system places value on human life.

The Playwright Development Program, an initiative from the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs in conjunction with the South Florida Theatre League and The Deering Estate at Cutler, is a series of weekend workshops over the span of two years led by nationally renowned playwrights. Started in 2001, the Program provides intensive support for cultivating new work from Miami’s growing and diverse community of playwrights. It has successfully served as an incubator for new works that have been produced by major theatres nationally, including Vanessa Garcia’s The Cuban Spring at New-Theatre, David Caudle’s “Visiting Hours” at the Rising Shiners Theatre Company and Juan Sanchez’s “Buck Fever” at the Blue Heron Arts Center in New York City.

Dana Castellano was a treasured supporter of the South Florida Theatre Community, who passed away from cancer in November 2014. Last year, during Summer Theatre Fest, Antonio Amadeo coordinated the first Dana Plays, an evening of short plays about hope, which raised over $2,000. Playwrights, actors, and directors from the community all contributed their time and talent towards supporting someone who had always gone above and beyond in supporting them. This year, the South Florida Theatre League wants to continue the efforts, even though Dana is no longer with us, by raising money for one of Dana’s favorite charities, the Broward County Humane Society.

The Theatre League’s Summer Theatre Fest has become an integral part of South Florida’s cultural landscape, and this year, South Florida audiences will once again have the opportunity to see theatre for free, check out new plays in development by South Florida playwrights, and tell the world what the arts – and theatre – mean to them. The success of last summer’s Come Under Our Umbrella program and play reading series indicated to the League that theatre patrons are ready and willing to try new theatrical experiences, and even cross county lines to do it.

The theme governing this year’s Summer Theatre Fest activities is Step Onto Our Stage. A unique ‘step and repeat’ has been created especially for the program, featuring theatrical curtains in front of a wall imprinted with the League’s logo. Patrons will be invited to Step Onto Our Stage to be photographed or videoed ‘on stage’ as they are interviewed about their theatrical experiences, and the significance of the arts in their lives. The step and repeat, which made its ‘debut’ at the South Florida Theatre League sponsored Carbonell Awards ‘after party’, will travel to participating theatres throughout the summer.

Summer Theatre Fest: Each Monday from June 1 to August 31, a South Florida Theatre League member theatre will host a reading of a new play by a local playwright. Playwrights range from established local favorites, including Carbonell Award-winners and nominees, to emerging talents, with plays vastly ranging in subject matter and style. Continue reading→

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